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In AHA’s newest #MyWhy video, nine hospital employees from UAB Medicine in Alabama candidly discuss their COVID-19 vaccine experience, starting with initial hesitancies and navigating misinformation surrounding the vaccine’s development and rumored side effects.
The Joint Commission today named as its next president and CEO effective March 1 Jonathan Perlin, M.D.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday began publicly sharing COVID-19 vaccination rates for nursing home staff and residents on its Care Compare website.
The House last night voted 220-211 to pass a continuing resolution that would generally extend current federal funding levels for health care and all other programs through Dec. 3.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing examining the impact of COVID-19 on children.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first biosimilar to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss and blindness for seniors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services granted certain Medicare quality reporting exceptions to acute-care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care…
Clinicians caring for individuals recently evacuated from Afghanistan should alert their state or local health department of suspected measles cases, and recommend the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine for unvaccinated patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised, noting…
In a study reported in JAMA Network Open, rural hospital mergers were associated with lower mortality for patients admitted to the hospital for heart attack, heart failure, stroke and pneumonia.
Johnson & Johnson said its phase 3 trial data confirms its vaccine’s durability and provided evidence of a second, booster shot’s effectiveness against COVID-19.